Released on = February 27, 2006, 7:15 am

Press Release Author = Parasoft Corporation

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = New release provides SOA development governance, broad test
management support and automated testing of BPEL

Press Release Body = February 27, 2006 - Monrovia, CA - Parasoft Corporation,
leading provider of automated error prevention solutions for software development,
announced today the release of Parasoft SOAtest 4.5, its automated software test,
analysis and development governance solution for web services and Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) implementations. The new release delivers extensive capabilities
to provide infrastructure and governance to the development of web services. These
include enhanced SOA development governance, broad test management support and new
automated testing of BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and BPEL-based
processes.

As organizations extend their development and deployment of web services it becomes
critical to the interoperability, extensibility and future reusability of those
services that they are developed on a common set of standards and shared guidelines.
Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 allows organizations to establish, enforce and practice SOA
development governance during the development and QA processes

"Establishing a reliable, repeatable test infrastructure and a development
governance process across the enterprise is paramount to ensuring that uncontrolled
and inconsistent Web services development do not compromise the planned benefits of
SOA." said Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development at Parasoft. "We
continue to extend the capabilities of SOAtest to provide organizations with the
support and automation they need to validate their web services for the security,
reliability and performance."

Parasoft SOAtest provides "out-of-the-box" validation of compliance with WS-I, W3C,
OASIS and a wide range of WS-* standards along with best practices for security,
maintainability, and reusability. Rules to enforce custom corporate policies and
standards can be developed with Parasoft SOAtests RuleWizard providing the means to
enforce all web services development policies and practices.

In addition to development governance the new Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 delivers extended
test management capabilities to allow groups of test assets to be managed and
scheduled for automated execution to support regression testing and general reuse
and retesting of services over the lifecycle of their use. In addition to its own
test management capabilities Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 provides direct integrations with
Mercury Test Director and IBM Rational TestManager. Now users of those test
management platforms can easily integrate, manage, and orchestrate execution of
Parasoft SOAtest generated test assets within the quality lifecycles supported by
those platforms. An enhanced command line interface allows Parasoft SOAtest to be
easily integrated with and invoked by automated build managers, such as Ant or
Cruise Control, or from within in-house developed test frameworks.

Parasoft SOAtest 4.5 also provides the ability to test BPEL implementations,
automatically creating test cases from vendor-specific BPEL deployment artifacts and
allowing users to arrange these test cases into suites that reflect different
aspects of testing a BPEL process. Tests generated fall into four categories: BPEL
semantic tests, WSDL tests, BPEL process tests and BPEL Partner tests. Organizations
using BPEL to optimize and emulate complex business processes can now more reliably
and consistently ensure the quality and completeness of these processes.

Parasoft SOAtest is a comprehensive, collaborative test and analysis tool suite
designed specifically for test and validation of Web services. Parasoft SOAtest
automates all the necessary practices that allow verification of all aspects of a
Web service, including four-tier WSDL validation, unit and functional testing of the
client, unit and functional testing of the server, performance testing, as well as
the ability to graphically model and test complex, multi-layered transaction
scenarios and use cases.

SOAtest addresses key SOA issues such as governance, interoperability, security,
change management, and scalability.


Availability
Parasoft SOAest 4.5 is available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux and Solaris.
Pricing starts at $3,995.


About Parasoft
Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automated software test
and analysis and the establishment of software error prevention practices as an
integrated part of the software development lifecycle. Parasoft's products and
services enable software development and IT organizations to significantly improve
visibility and control over the quality, costs and schedules of their software
projects through the practice of Automated Error Prevention (AEP). Parasoft has
more than 10,000 clients worldwide including: Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco,
Disney, Ericsson, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Lockheed, Lexis-Nexis, Sabre Holdings, SBC
and Yahoo. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is a privately held company headquartered in
Monrovia, CA. For more information visit: www.parasoft.com.

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